NVWA introduces food safety checkpoint

The Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) works together with private inspection agencies that apply a monitoring system to companies that supply food to consumers. These agencies do not replace NVWA supervision, but if you engage one of these companies and you have demonstrably ensured food safety, NVWA will adjust the supervision.

This means that your company can become a notified location within the Checkpoint Food Safety programme. This means that NVWA will only visit you in response to reports or (by random sampling) within the framework of a check on the control system itself.

What does the Checkpoint Food Safety programme entail?

Within the Checkpoint Food Safety programme, NVWA works together with accepted control systems of control and advice agencies that carry out a system agreed with NVWA at participating companies. By doing so, they ensure that participating locations comply with the legal requirements in the field of food safety.

Benefits of registered locations

• You demonstrably comply with legal requirements in the field of food safety.
• You fall under adjusted NVWA supervision.
• You receive the stamp 'complies' when we make inspection results public. A condition is that you fall under the SBI codes (Standard Business Classification according to the Chamber of Commerce) mentioned in the Health Act.

Conditions for becoming a notified location

• You work in accordance with an approved hygiene code; you do not have your own HACCP plan or a self-designed supplement to it.
• You do not have EC recognition.
• You supply more than 50 per cent directly to the consumer.

Costs

Participation in the programme is not free. The accepted inspection and advice agencies each have their own conditions and rates. You are free to choose which control and advice bureau suits your company best.

Public-private cooperation

The Checkpoint Food Safety programme is one of the instruments used by the NVWA in the public-private partnership for a more risk-oriented interpretation of its supervision.

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